Seligman, Martin E. P

The author, leading spokesman for the scientifically based Positive Psychology movement, provides an understanding of positive emotions and how to increase them, and argues that authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating fundamental strengths and using them everyday in work, love, play, and parenting.

Offers a program for parents and teachers to teach children the skills of optimism needed to combat depression. Based on the results of a long-term research project on preventing depression.